COSC 4P98 Seminars
Seminars information
Each seminar will be 14 minutes total (12 minutes presentation + 2 minutes questions).
A seminar should include a bibliography of sources used.
A Powerpoint or PDF presentation should be used.
The electronic file must be submitted to me before a grade is assigned.
Date and topic assignment is first-come-first-serve!
Please see the topics list for some general topic areas.
Scheduled seminars
Wed Mar 21
- Vocaloid (Evan Verworn)
- Propellerhead Reason (Ethan Jackson)
- Fractal music (William Kostiuk)
- Real-time musical accompaniment (Chris Jacques)
- Nyquist music language (Kevin Delisle)
Fri Mar 23
- Inmamusys: Intelligent multiagent music system (Stu Gritter)
- Android audio (Vince Pascuzzi)
- Music genre classification using neural networks (Justin Chan)
- Computer music interfaces (Nikita Radaev)
- Computer-based notation systems for music (Dan Edwards)
Wed Mar 28
- Psychoacoustics and audio compression (Jennifer Belanger)
- Max (Chris Conley)
- Pure Data (Joe Fusco)
- Speech recognition using ANN (Jagdeep Matharu)
- High dynamic range audio (Luke Sulek)
Fri Mar 30
- Numerical-oriented algorithmic music (Kyle Harrison)
- Emulating 3D positional audio (Viktor Stremler)
- Digital Signal Processors (Tristan Christopher)
- Audio and graphics cards (Tony Wu)
- Genetic Music (Michael Samborski)
Wed Apr 4
- Facial capture using voice recordings (Yuyu Ouyang)
- Visualizing Audio in a First-Person Shooter With Directional Sound Display (Samantha Yiu)
- Auto-tune (Jeff Aubertin)
- The Chameleon Guitar - a Physical Heart in a Digital Instrument (Jozsef Szabo)
Mon Apr 9
- Pitch shifting and time compression/expansion (Nik Unger)
- Beat Detection: Statistical Streaming Detection vs. Rhythm Filtering (Ron Bond)
- Music app development on the iOS platform (Hira Aftab)
- Generative Music (Steve Niles)
- Stochastic Music (Mathew Menonkariyil)
- Markov-chain music generation (Endre Balint)